Enhancing Route Maintenance in RS-AODV

摘要

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are temporary formed, infrastructure-less networks. The performance metrics degrades due to the unstable channel conditions, network connectivity, and mobility and resource limitations. To improve different performance metrics, various cross-layering techniques are used where different layers from protocol stack communications with each other via exchange of information. Ad hoc on demand Routing Protocol (AODV) is a well reactive ad hoc routing protocol. We proposed RS-AODV (Route Stability based AODV), a modified version of AODV routing protocol, based on route discovery by utilizing Physical Layer information instead of the minimum hop count approach of the default distance vector algorithm. Our research will also elaborate how the proposed model uses the received Signal Strength (RSSI) to find its route. We will focus on parameters like traffic throughput, response, time, packet loss, delay, link stability, optimal usage of battery resource to increase overall lifetime of a network. And also use novel approach "make before break" that starts finding alternate route when it seems link failure due to mobility of node. Simulation results show that RS-AODV has performance better that AODV routing protocol in terms of the metrics: End-to-End delay, Packet Delivery Ratio, Network Routing Load and number of route repairs.